Dear Silent Hall of Fame Users:

You have come to this website, because you like silent films and silent movie stars. There are many places like this. But unlike other sites, here at Silent Hall of Fame you can make a real difference. You can help us show for the first time many films featuring your favorite silent stars that have not been seen in generations. This will bring their names back into the public discourse. But you can do much more than that: you can help your favorite silent stars receive belated recognition and glory.

Until now there has never been an organization with the purpose to place a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for movie personalities from a century ago. Silent Hall of Fame is this historic organization. Silent Hall of Fame is the only organization of its kind. We will make history and we invite you to become a part of history by sponsoring a silent movie star for the Hollywood Walk of Fame. All contributions are tax deductible.

Please use this button for a one-time donation. Use the button on the right-hand side for a recurring donation.

Rare Gems on DVD

Our users have spoken, and we have listened. You want to see rare and hard to find films, and we have created for you the Silent Gems Collection, available on eBay. This DVD collection includes rare and for the first time available films with our stars, as well as other silent masterpieces. These are high quality films that are hard to find anywhere else. Please click on this link to see the collection: Silent Gems Collection

This announcement, as well as the link, are approved by Google AdWords for Nonprofits. See also the Footnote at the bottom of this page.

Important Update:You don't have to leave our website in order to obtain the films from our Silent Gems Collection. These gems are now available to our users as a reward for donation. For details click here.

OUR DOCUMENTARY

We are proud to present to all silent film lovers our multiple award-winning documentary! In March 2015 it won the distinction "Award of Merit" at the San Francisco Film Awards. In May it won the Silver Award at the 2015 International Independent Film Awards. In September 2015 it won the Award of Recognition at the Accolade Global Film Competition. Of equal merit is the inclusion of the documentary in the Official Selection of the San Jose International Short Film Festival in October 2015. In December the documentary won the extremely prestigious Diamond Award at the 2015 California Film Awards. The amazing run of recognition for our documentary continued in 2016. In February it was included in the Official Selection of the Buffalo Niagara International Film Festival.

These films have not been seen by the classic movie lovers in almost a century. Silent Hall of Fame wishes to work together with the UCLA in order to make these films available to the public.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO THE UCLA TO RELEASE COPIES OF THE RARE FILMS TO SILENT HALL OF FAME OR MAKE THESE FILMS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

Silent Hall of Fame, a nonprofit organization, is committed to preserving the legacy of silent movie stars. We show rare silent films, including many that are very hard to find anywhere else, on our website silent-hall-of-fame.org.

Silent Hall of Fame discovered that the UCLA holds in their vaults copies of many rare films featuring our stars, as well as other distinguished silent era personalities. These films have not seen the eyes of the public for a very long time.

We asked the UCLA to let us borrow these films so that we can show them to everybody interested in films from the Silent Era. The UCLA informed us that it has instituted a policy to charge an access fee of $ 5,000 per title (feature film).

We are asking the public to support our request to borrow these films and show them on our website silent-hall-of-fame.org if the UCLA cannot make these films available to the public.

We are also asking the public to comment how it feels about UCLA's access fee of $ 5,000 and about losing the chance, probably forever, to see rare films that exist only in single copies in the UCLA archives.

Please understand that this is YOUR petition. YOU, the silent film lovers of the world, will benefit if the petition is successful and will be able to see many rare silent masterpieces that have been locked in vaults for generations.

Below are the stars and their films that we want to show on our website to the silent movie lovers of the world, or write a movie review and post pictures (for the films that are still copyrighted). Please note that the films in bold are not available anywhere else in the whole world, except in the UCLA. This incomplete list of the UCLA holdings includes 136 stars in 220 rare films that many silent film lovers won't be able to see in their lifetime if the UCLA does not open their archives to the public.

Jacqueline LoganFool's Paradise (1921)The Blood Ship (1927)The River Woman (1928)The King of the Kongo (1929) - 10 chapter serialAccording to IMDB: A complete 10-chapter copy of the silent version of this serial is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

All silent movie lovers are incredibly lucky that these films have survived the trials and tribulations of time and abuse. What is the use of having them locked in closed vaults? Let's make an extra effort to bring these films out into the open and show them to the world audiences, where they belong.

Please understand that this is YOUR petition. YOU, the silent film lovers of the world, will benefit if the petition is successful and will be able to see many rare silent masterpieces that have been locked in vaults for generations.

Please sign the petition if you believe in free access of the public to all films kept in archives and if you want to help the legacy of silent stars. Every one of you classic movie lovers of the world can make a difference.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO THE UCLA TO RELEASE COPIES OF THE FILMS TO SILENT HALL OF FAME OR MAKE THESE FILMS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

Silent Hall of Fame, a nonprofit organizationPreserving the legacy of silent movie starshttp://silent-hall-of-fame.org/

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO THE UCLA TO RELEASE COPIES OF THE RARE FILMS TO SILENT HALL OF FAME OR MAKE THESE FILMS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

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